Versions of Survival focuses on the efforts to rehabilitate the human image after it has been tempered in the crucible of the Holocaust. It examines the ways in which psychology, language, and literary art distort or illuminate that effort. It insists on the importance of confronting the inhuman, to say nothing of the unthinkable, when probing survival during the Holocaust and the sources of man's moral being. The book assesses and challenges some of the more comfortable and comforting conclusions about the survival ...
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Versions of Survival focuses on the efforts to rehabilitate the human image after it has been tempered in the crucible of the Holocaust. It examines the ways in which psychology, language, and literary art distort or illuminate that effort. It insists on the importance of confronting the inhuman, to say nothing of the unthinkable, when probing survival during the Holocaust and the sources of man's moral being. The book assesses and challenges some of the more comfortable and comforting conclusions about the survival experience as set forth by Bruno Bettelheim, Viktor Frankl, and Terrence Des Pres. It analyses material that contradicts or modifies their survival theories such as Hermann Langbein's Menschen in Auschwitz, Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, and Tadeusz Borowski's stories This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Langer then evaluates the career and work of Elie Wiesel, an Auschwitz survivor who has devoted his life to forging an image of the human compatible with the anguish that the survivor-victim of the Holocaust endured. Finally, the author examines the fate of language, of the work itself, as it succumbs to atrocity and then is reshaped into a new and vigorous if enigmatic force by the hand and imagination of two survivor poets, Gertrud Kolmar and Nelly Sachs.
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Add this copy of Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human to cart. $60.00, very good condition, Sold by thomson sales rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Potomac, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by State University of New York Press.
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Very good in fair dust jacket. Removed small bookplate. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 280 p. Contains: Unspecified. Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Versions of Survival: the Holocaust and the Human to cart. $60.00, very good condition, Sold by Sutton Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Norwich, VT, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by State University of New York Press, 1982.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Hbk 280pp prev owner's name on front flyleaf otherwise an unread copy excellent as new in sleeve-protected dj as new.
